Kolkata, March 10 -- Just four days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally at Brigade, the Special Protection Group (SPG)-the elite security force responsible for providing proximate security to the Prime Minister of India and former prime ministers and their immediate families-has asked organisers to dismantle the stage being prepared for Modi's upcoming rally in Kolkata.
The directive came after SPG officials inspected the venue on Tuesday and insisted that the soil beneath the stage be thoroughly examined before construction proceeds further.
According to sources present at the site, the security personnel informed BJP organisers that the stage structure must be removed so that a detailed inspection of the ground-both at the surfa...